Archives for
January 2012

Pixar, the animation studio behind Disney favorites like Toy Story, has made it easier and faster for artists and studios to create high-quality imagery. The company teamed up with GreenButton, a cloud services company, to offer RenderMan On Demand. ...

The CHIP Solar House is a highly efficient working prototype of a futuristic living space. Powered by the sun and smartly insulated, CHIP produces and saves all the energy it needs. In certain areas of the country, the residents could actually sell b...

Much to the annoyance of many of its users, Facebook is always changing. The recent Timeline revamp is the last in a series of tweaks to the social networking service, some good, some bad, and some just plain ugly. Do you like the news "ticker?" How ...

Facebook halted trading of its shares in secondary markets for three days starting Wednesday, a possible indicator the company's long-awaited IPO is coming soon, according to a report. Representatives of Facebook's law firm, Fenwick & West, sent a le...

Twitter has released the official stats showing the activity of its users during President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, providing an interesting insight in how the Twittersphere reacted to various parts of the speech. During the eve...

Facebook announced more than 60 new partnerships last Thursday, all of which yielded apps that can be integrated into your Timeline. We've already seen the early results of select partnerships -- including Spotify, The Washington Post and Foursquare....

Google has rolled out Public Alerts, a system for notifying the public about emergencies that will be integrated into Google Maps. The company announced Wednesday that it is integrating feeds from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio...

Facebook announced on its blog Tuesday that all users will have Timeline within the next few weeks, bringing a close to the gradual rollout process that began September 2011. Timeline changes the old Facebook profile from a list of your recent update...

Online luxury retailer Net-a-Porter is heralding the launch of a new collection Wednesday with five augmented reality-enhanced shopping events across the globe. Crowds have gathered at window locations in Paris, New York, London, Berlin and Sydney fo...

Apple just had its best quarter ever. While it was expected to have a great holiday season, no one saw the unbelievable numbers coming: 37 million iPhones sold, 140 million downloads on Christmas Day, $97 billion in the bank. A good chunk of that suc...

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore spoke with IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond about the growth of the company, the rise o...

Why is author, entrepreneur and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk so successful? According to the man himself it is because he has out worked everyone else. Self-made success in today's economy is all about what Vaynerchuk likes to call hustle, and...

Twitter has another celebrity impostor -- someone pretending to be actress Stephanie March, wife of chef Bobby Flay. On Tuesday morning, Flay addressed the many questions swirling around on Twitter regarding the @StephanieCMarch account, which launch...

Twitter announced languages read right to left would be coming to the Twitter Translation Center, beginning with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter will become fully available in those four languages later this spring, once volunteer translators...

Online data storage service Mozy has unveiled a new file synchronization feature for consumers and businesses to keep data up to date across all devices, from smartphones and tablets to computers. Called Stash, the feature allows Mozy users to backup...

McDonald's -- whose last Twitter campaign, themed #McDstories, became a magnet for criticism of the brand -- launched another hashtag campaign on Wednesday. The new drive is called #littlethings. The fast food giant introduced the talking point with ...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook Timeline to Go Live for Everyone Soon F...

Sure, there are parents who responsibly sort their children's outgrown clothes into boxes for consignment and donations before driving them to appropriate locations. But there would probably be a lot more of them recycling clothes if the process inst...

Politicians have been deploying digital tools in new and innovative ways this election season, and the media outlets and journalists covering them have been doing the same. Throughout the 2012 battle for the White House, media outlets have been desig...

From what I’ve heard, President Barack Obama is a bit of a gadget nerd. He likes his iPad and his BlackBerry, and fought to keep using the RIM device as he entered the White House in 2009. Yet, as I listened to his State of the Union-cum-2012 preside...

"More power!" You can imagine Steve Ballmer yelling it through Microsoft's halls but that's exactly what is happening with the Xbox 720, according to reports from IGN. The next Xbox -- rumored to be the "Xbox 720" -- will ship to retailers in late Oc...

"Thousands" of journalists have signed up for Facebook Subscribe since it launched last September, according to a report released by Facebook Wednesday. Subscribe is a feature that allows Facebook users to follow the public status updates of other us...

The Leaders in Digital Series is supported by Samsung. Follow Samsung USA on Google+ and Twitter, and like them on Facebook. With huge names like Kevin Spacey and Tom Hanks diving into digital-first distribution deals for their original content, it w...

The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles -- it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or fo...

Pope Benedict XVI's annual message for World Communications Day on Tuesday suggested a tried-and-true strategy for both social media and life in general: don't just talk, also listen. The theme of the message: balancing silence and words. "The proces...

We know. We know. Everyone still hasn't stopped talking about how many iPhone 4Ses Apple sold last quarter, and here we are reporting on new rumors about the next one. But this most recent iPhone 5 rumor has piqued our interest more than usual. 9to5 ...

Netflix on Wednesday announced it added 220,000 streaming subscribers in the fourth quarter and posted earnings of $0.73 per share and revenues of $876 million, beating Wall Street forecasts. The figures, which come in the first full quarter in which...

Authorities appear to be giving no quarter in their case against file-sharing website Megaupload. A New Zealand judge denied bail to the website's founder, Kim Dotcom, on Wednesday. Authorities in the Netherlands also arrested a fifth suspect in the ...

The New York Police Department is currently testing scanners that can search passers-by for concealed firearms without an officer needing to perform a physical pat down. The terahertz wave-technology makes it possible for the devices to detect concea...

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